Screening for antimicrobial activity of ten medicinal plants used in Colombian folkloric medicine: A possible alternative in the treatment of non-nosocomial infections

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rojas, Jhon J ^a   Ochoa, Veronica J ^a   Ocampo, Saul A ^a   Muñoz, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BIDENS PILOSA EXTRACT; BIXA ORELLANA EXTRACT; CECROPIA PELTATA EXTRACT; CINCHONA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HEXANE; JACARANDA MIMOSIFOLIA EXTRACT; JUSTICIA SECUNDA EXTRACT; NYSTATIN; PIPER PANICULATA EXTRACT; PIPER PULCHRUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SPILANTHES AMERICANA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ACANTHACEAE; ANGIOSPERM; BIDENS; BIXACEAE; CECROPIA; CINCHONA; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; HUMAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; PHYTOTHERAPY; PIPER (PLANT); STREPTOCOCCUS;

ACANTHACEAE; ANGIOSPERMS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BIDENS; BIXACEAE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CECROPIA PLANT; CINCHONA; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PIPER; PLANT EXTRACTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 33644841699     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-6-2     Document Type: Article

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